Social diversity

Social diversity

A minority group is that whose members go through a sequence of inequality and disadvantages, which generally extend to ownership of property, employment sectors, education, housing, political power and healthcare. The minority group share visible characteristics such as skin colour, body structure, facial features in which they hold with low esteem, for making them look different from the others. A minority group sees the disadvantages and inequalities they go through in society. The members of a minority group attain their status through an involuntary trait, birth. They primarily practise endogamy, for many states previously had laws against interracial marriages.

A dominant group is that whose members have great opportunities, social image and a lot of power. Karl Marx and Max Weber theoretically try to bring out a description of a dominant group.

Karl Max, a German Philosopher, made a theory of inequality, history and social change where he blames the economic system about the means of production. There is a strain existing in between the poor and the rich. Karl Marx gives examples of things that chip in to determine the economic output of an agricultural and industrial society. For the community which entirely relies on agriculture ploughs, land and animals to conduct the agriculture are a significant determinant. For the nations depending on industrialization factories, corporations and businesses determine the overall production. The rich possess and regulate the means of production, while the working class appears minor, having to follow already set rules to achieve good produce.

Max Weber, a German Sociologist, did not fully support Karl Marx’s theory. He had a broader way to define the inequality perspective. His thoughts included three ideas, class, prestige and power. The ownership and control of the property was a significant determinant of the economic inequality, just as Karl Markswomen says that the level of influence that different groups have such as the lineage of a family or its fame makes them more popular. They automatically get higher levels of prestige as compared to the minority groups. About power, we find that those people who are politically famous are plentiful. In most cases, they influence their follower’s ways of making their own decisions and are high influencers.

The most important concept of understanding social diversity is understanding that people are unique in their ways and that the recognition of every uniqueness is of importance towards social diversity. In such, people should cut off racism, whether it results from the skin colour of different people, their language, religious background or their gender.

Prejudice occurs when an individual negatively thinks about other people or groups and giving the wrong judgement about them about their group membership—discrimination is characterized by thought and feelings towards a particular group of individuals. People have been thought of as stereotypes and branded as lazy, greedy, drunkards, hostile among other descriptions. Prejudice makes an individual feel less human, for after being undervalued one’s esteem automatically depletes. Bias is an automatic pathway to discrimination and sometimes bullying to the minority.

Discrimination occurs when an unequal treatment is given to a person or a group of people in refining to their group membership. It is, therefore, an act. Some employees will deliberately refuse to hire an employee because of their origin. This form of treatment is very unfair for it denies people with the right qualifications the opportunities to secure themselves descent jobs. Negative emotions, depression, mental and physical health issues may result in individuals experiencing discrimination.

Ideological racism is a system that a particular group of people is weak. Ideological racism tends to become part of the involved culture. Hence, it passes from one generation to another. the US widely practised slavery, where they forced blacks to do onerous duties. The explanation for the widespread of slavery in the US was that the blacks were just inferior, and their white masters were superior. Enslaving the blacks denied them exposure to the white-collar jobs. The blacks did not get equal treatments with the whites for their colour of their skin clearly defined a significant difference.

Institutional discriminations are the unequal treatment built into the social structure of a society, including schools, political institutions, the criminal justice system, among others. Institutional discrimination, in most cases, starts during the recruitment processes of jobs. There are two forms of institutional discrimination. These are the apparent discrimination and subtle discrimination. An illustration of subtle discrimination is a scenario where some schools eliminate students from the institution following a biased aptitude test. An example of the apparent bias was like the paying of polling taxes introduced for the African Americans after the civil war. Paying polling taxes was not possible for most blacks for they could not raise the targeted amounts of money. This taxation, therefore, kept them away from voting.

In my understanding, social diversity refers to that community whose individuals are determined by a different language, ethnicity, race, religious beliefs, gender and socioeconomic classes to bring their diverse knowledge, experience and background together for the good of the entire community. Both Karl Marx and Max Weber’s theories have made me understand the concept of social diversity, as a factor that is determined by class, prestige and power. The rich, those with power and the famous are behind social diversity.

Many societies classify their people at birth to be either male or female, and they treat them as males or females and are assigned their duties about their gender. People’s racial stratifications include blacks, whites and Asians. An individual’s skin colour defines the race; hence it becomes the first thing we notice once we set our eyes on a person.